Terrington St Clement

   At last, I found the time to visit and explore the first new village of the season, the lovely village of Terrington St Clement. The village sits in the great Marshlands that leads to the Wash, a large village with a good mixture of modern and historic buildings.

   Terrington St Clement is around 20 miles from my own village of Upwell and although this time of year it can be a rather cold journey with the cold marsh winds as ever blowing against me, I'm very much looking forward to cycling there in the warmer summer months. The first thing I noticed was a great selection of amenities that the village has, all the normal shops such as butcher, baker and general stores along with the more traditional village amenities like the village forge, barbershop and of course the local fish and chip shop. There are many other facilities such as schools, health centre etc.

   I think you all know me enough by now to guess I headed straight for the older part of the village and the parish church being the first target. Their church is very unique in that the main church building and the tower are independent of each other, only by a few feet but they are separate. I have only come across this once before while cycling the fens and that is at the great bell tower of West Walton near Wisbech, in that case, the gap between the two buildings in a matter of yards rather than feet.

   I will be heading off to Terrington St Clement more often this summer, the village seems such a friendly place with various places at which to spend time to rest and of course there are the marshes that lay just below the Wash to explore. So, all in all, a very nice village to visit, a very large parish that boasts both modern and historical buildings of interest and the friendly people of the marshes who I can honestly say gave me a warm welcome. I can only speak from what I found but I would strongly advise a visit, you will I'm sure have an interesting walk around the village.
 

Spring Peeks Around The Corner.

   It's been yet another wet and windy winter thus far and we are still not out of storm season. The country has taken and really hammering from the storms and so many people are flooded out of their homes as I write this blog, you can only feel for them. Yet on my cycles, I smile when seeing the river banks and hedgerows starting to show their wares, those beautiful clumps of Snowdrops, Daffodils and Primerose all adding that colour of early Spring to the fenlands of East Anglia.
   Running through Upwell and Outwell the banks of Well Creek are covered in Daffodils, yellows of every shade and still many many more yet to flower. It's this time of year when mother nature really starts her great show, a show that passes through Spring, Summer and the Autumn months until once more the colder months wrap around our fen cottages.

   My cycling through winter has stayed around the 20-mile mark each morning, my idea to just tick over until the finer weather is here. This last week I have started the longer journies, travelling up to the great marshlands that sit just below the Wash, such an interesting area full of character and one I hope to visit often this coming summer. This coming week I hope to visit Terrington St Clement when I will spend some time looking around the village and taking photographs ready to post here on my blog. I have been there before but never really had time to explore everything apart from their parish church which I must admit is very unique being in that the tower is separate from the main building, but I will explain and show pictures next week fingers crossed.